Executive summary / TL;DR
- The critical infrastructure lab launches on April 13-14, 2023 at the
University of
Amsterdam
- Send in your session proposals for interactive workshops on April 13th (the
lab day)
- Send in your extended abstracts (academics) or position statements
(practitioners)
for the panel sessions on April 14th (the research day)
- Send submissions to submission@criticalinfralab.net by March 1st (750-1000
words)
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"Infrastructure makes worlds" -- Ned Rossiter
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Dear colleague, friend, comrade,
Communications infrastructures constitute the invisible scaffolding of social
life.
Largely concealed to their end-users, they are becoming the main stage where
local and
global economic, social, environmental, and geopolitical conflicts are played
out. Once
established, infrastructures shape societies for decades to come.
On the 13th and 14th of April we will launch the critical infrastructure lab
to
discuss and develop visions of how communication infrastructures can serve the
public
interest -- and we want to do that with you!
Work in the critical infrastructure lab will focus on the development of new
infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.
Hosted
at the University of Amsterdam and led by Fieke Jansen, Niels ten Oever, and
Maxigas,
the lab will bring together activists, advocates, scholars, policymakers, and
industry
actors. Three analytical lenses of standards, geopolitics and environment will
be
applied to built an evidence base, investigate and develop infrastructural
imaginaries,
and create actionable research for infrastructures that serve the public
interest.
About the launch event
The two-day event at the University of Amsterdam will take place on the 13th
and 14th
of April. It will be a mix of keynote speakers, hands-on workshops,
infrastructure
walks, and panel discussions. Both days will be in person, but day 1 will be
streamed.
For both days, we invite session proposals from activists, advocates,
scholars,
policymakers, and industry.
Day zero, 13th of April, will be a hands-on lab day. It will offer space for
interactive sessions on geopolitics, environment, and standards. We invite
proposals
for sessions of 2.5 hours. For instance, workshops, infrastructure walks,
policy
challenges, simulations, etc. Pretty much everything that is not a panel or
paper
presentation.
Day one, 14th of April, will have a more academic structure. It will kick off
with
three keynote presentations followed by panel sessions. The keynote speakers -
Ksennia
Ermoshina, Svitlana Matviyenko, and Yu Hong - will inspire and challenge us.
The
keynotes are followed by Corinne Cath, who will present her research on
exclusionary
cultures of internet governance.
The afternoon will be dedicated to simultaneous panel sessions in the areas
of
infrastructure and geopolitics, infrastructure and environment, and
infrastructure and
standards. Academics can submit an extended abstract (research question,
theory/literature, method, data, preliminary findings) and practitioners can
submit a
position statement. These contributions should be between 750 and 1000 words.
Want to submit
Do you have an idea you want to workshop, a discussion you want to host, or
some
research that you want to present?
State clearly in an email:
- your name and affiliation,
- whether you are submitting for day zero or day one,
- the research area (infrastructure and geopolitics, infrastructure and
environment, or infrastructure and standards)
- include an abstract, position statement or a blurb for an interactive
session!
Send your submission to submission@criticalinfralab.net by March 1st.
The lab and its research is supported by the Ford Foundation, the Internet
Society
Foundation, and Omidyar Network.
Best,
Fieke, Niels and Maxigas
https://www.criticalinfralab.net/
--
Niels ten Oever, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher - Media Studies Department - University of Amsterdam
Affiliated Faculty - Digital Democracy Institute - Simon Fraser University
Non-Resident Fellow 2022-2023 - Center for Democracy & Technology
Associated Scholar - Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade - Fundao Getlio
Vargas
Research Fellow - Centre for Internet and Human Rights - European University
Viadrina
Vice chair - Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)
W: https://nielstenoever.net
E: mail@nielstenoever.net
T: @nielstenoever
P/S/WA: +31629051853
PGP: 4254 ECD5 D4CF F6AF 8B91 0D9F EFAD 2E49 CC90 C10C
Read my latest article on network ideologies and how 5G reshapes the internet
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308596122001446
--
Maxigas
Senior Lecturer in Media and Culture
Department of Media
University of Amsterdam
NEW BOOK =>>> Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking
by Johan Sderberg and Maxigas, foreword by Richard Barbrook
Catalog: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544566/
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